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Nicholas Edward Williams
United States
Registrace 23. 07. 2018
Host of the roots music history podcast American Songcatcher, Nicholas Edward Williams is a multi-instrumentalist and storyteller who is dedicated to "playing it forward" by preserving the songs, stories, artists and styles that have shaped our country: Ragtime, Piedmont Blues, Early Country, Traditional Folk and Old-Time. Williams has spent the last 15 years touring three continents, performing all around the US, as well as the UK, Western Europe and Australia, blending the roots music spectrum in his own style. Under his previous project, Whetherman, Williams independently released eight revered records from 2007-2018. Under his own name, his critically acclaimed sophomore release from late 2021, Folk Songs For Old Times' Sake has been heralded by well-regarded figures of the roots community such as David Holt, Oliver Wood, Dom Flemons, and JP Harris.
The New Quintet // "Mississippi John" (WUWF Radio Live)
Filmed and recorded at the Commerce Museum in Pensacola, FL on June 4th, 2024, here's an original paying homage to legendary guitarist Mississippi John Hurt, aptly titled "Mississippi John".
Stream the single:
social.tunecore.com/linkShare?linkid=bAF_QDYucqXkHnlt_qPCkg
More about us:
www.linktr.ee/TheNewQuintet
Instrumentation:
Nicholas Williams: Vocals, Guitar
Jade Watts: Upright Bass, Harmony
Gordon Inman: Clarinet, Harmony
Emma Dubose: Fiddle, Harmony
Cody Ray: Guitar, Harmony
Find the audio documentary-style music history podcast "American Songcatcher":
linktr.ee/AmericanSongcatcher
Bio:
Honoring the styles that have shaped our country from Traditional Folk to Ragtime, Old-Time and Early Country, The New Quintet features storyteller and musicologist Nicholas Edward Williams (Guitar, Vocals), Emma Dubose (Fiddle, Vocals), Jade Watts (Upright Bass, Vocals), Gordon Inman (Clarinet, Vocals) and Cody Ray (Guitar, Lap Steel, Vocals). The ensemble dynamically weaves big harmonies, ancient melodies and lush textures on a fabric of both original and reimagined traditional material with an old-timey flair. Since forming in 2020 The New Quintet has been on festival stages, concert series bills, listening rooms and theaters throughout the Southeast, and are scheduled to release their first full-length record Some Ya Do, Some Ya Don't on December 6th 2024 via EarthTone Records.
Stream the single:
social.tunecore.com/linkShare?linkid=bAF_QDYucqXkHnlt_qPCkg
More about us:
www.linktr.ee/TheNewQuintet
Instrumentation:
Nicholas Williams: Vocals, Guitar
Jade Watts: Upright Bass, Harmony
Gordon Inman: Clarinet, Harmony
Emma Dubose: Fiddle, Harmony
Cody Ray: Guitar, Harmony
Find the audio documentary-style music history podcast "American Songcatcher":
linktr.ee/AmericanSongcatcher
Bio:
Honoring the styles that have shaped our country from Traditional Folk to Ragtime, Old-Time and Early Country, The New Quintet features storyteller and musicologist Nicholas Edward Williams (Guitar, Vocals), Emma Dubose (Fiddle, Vocals), Jade Watts (Upright Bass, Vocals), Gordon Inman (Clarinet, Vocals) and Cody Ray (Guitar, Lap Steel, Vocals). The ensemble dynamically weaves big harmonies, ancient melodies and lush textures on a fabric of both original and reimagined traditional material with an old-timey flair. Since forming in 2020 The New Quintet has been on festival stages, concert series bills, listening rooms and theaters throughout the Southeast, and are scheduled to release their first full-length record Some Ya Do, Some Ya Don't on December 6th 2024 via EarthTone Records.
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Nicholas Edward Williams | "Wayfaring Pilgram" (LIVE)
zhlédnutí 175Před 14 dny
Here's one of the oldest hymns still around today, dating back to the first spiritual songs brought over by settlers from the British Isles in the 18th and 19th century. Also known as "Wayfaring Stranger", it's also a part of the broadside ballad tradition where musicianers would stand on the corner in town squares with printed sheets of lyrics, singing those words and selling them to the towns...
The New Quintet "Mississippi John" (Full Single)
zhlédnutí 164Před měsícem
Here's the full recording of the debut single from The New Quintet, a joyful and energetic composition paying respects to legendary guitar picker Mississippi John Hurt. This is the first of several off our forthcoming full-length Some Ya Do. Some Ya Don’t. releasing December 6th on EarthTone Records. STREAM IT: social.tunecore.com/linkShare?linkid=bAF_QDYucqXkHnlt_qPCkg Bandleader Nicholas Edwa...
Nicholas Edward Williams w/ Stash Wyslouch // "Wildwood Flower" (Traditional)
zhlédnutí 168Před 3 měsíci
Live from a SOLD OUT show at the legendary Club Passim in Cambridge, MA on April 20th, 2024. Performing an old traditional with my good buddy and guitar slayer Stash Wyslouch (of Molsky Mountain Drifters among many other groups). This one was made famous by The Carter Family, after AP Carter harvested the song with Leslie Riddle in the Appalachian mountains, and Maybelle Carter created this ico...
Nicholas Edward Williams | "Mississippi River Blues" (Live)
zhlédnutí 291Před 4 měsíci
Here's an old Jimmie Rodgers tune that I've reworked, performed live in Burlington, VT for the Twilight Concert Series in July of 2023. Follow Me: www.linktr.ee/NicholasEdwardWilliams Find more history on my audio documentary-style music history podcast "American Songcatcher": linktr.ee/AmericanSongcatcher Bio: Host of the roots music history podcast American Songcatcher, Nicholas Edward Willia...
Nicholas Edward Williams | "St. Louis Tickle" & "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out"
zhlédnutí 150Před 5 měsíci
Live from a house concert in Jacksonville, FL on Feb 10, 2024, here's a ragtime medley of "St. Louis Tickle" (Barney & Seymour - 1904) and "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" (Jimmie Cox - 1923). Follow Me: www.linktr.ee/NicholasEdwardWilliams Find more history on my audio documentary-style music history podcast "American Songcatcher": linktr.ee/AmericanSongcatcher Bio: Host of the root...
Roots Music History: Live! | Elizabeth Cotten & "Freight Train"
zhlédnutí 103Před 6 měsíci
Live from the historic Stecoah Valley Arts Center for the Harvest Festival in Robbinsville, NC on October 20th, 2023 - Roots Music History: Live features a condensed history of North Carolina musical heritage. This is a clip covering a bit of Piedmont Blues legend Elizabeth Cotten, including a performance of her song "Freight Train." Roots Music History: Live! is a multimedia live concert prese...
Pickers Anonymous | “Wildwood Flower & Whiskey Before Breakfast”
zhlédnutí 177Před 7 měsíci
Live from The Woodshop Listening Room (Chattanooga, TN) in May of 2023. Pickers Anonymous is an old-time duo composed of Chattanooga folkies John Benjamin Davis (Mandolin, Banjo, Guitar, Fiddle, Vocals) as well as Nicholas Edward Williams (Guitar, Banjo, Harmonica, Vocals). The two collect old traditional material and present it with their own eclectic filter, harkening back to the days of famo...
The New Quintet | "St James Infirmary" (Traditional) - 2023 Suwannee Roots Revival
zhlédnutí 110Před 8 měsíci
Here’s a live performance of @TheNewQuintet at the 2023 Suwannee Roots Revival Festival in Live Oak, FL of one of the most versatile standards out there, “Saint James Infirmary” - directly inspired by Snooks Eaglin's rendition from 1959, and first recorded in 1927 under the title “Gambler's Blues". It was then made famous when Louis Armstrong recorded it for the first time as "St. James Infirma...
The New Quintet | "Whiskey Before Breakfast" // "East Virginia Blues" (Traditional)
zhlédnutí 266Před 9 měsíci
Here's a traditional mashup of an old time Canadian fiddle tune standard called "Whiskey Before Breakfast", with a slightly faster rendition of an old folk tune called "East Virginia Blues", also known as "Old Virginny" or "Greenback Dollar" depending on where you come from, mainly influenced by The Carter Family's version. The video is from a live performance at Songbirds Guitar Museum in Chat...
The New Quintet | "Oh My Sweet Carolina" (Ryan Adams) LIVE
zhlédnutí 300Před 10 měsíci
Here's a wonderfully written piece of folk music history, "Oh My Sweet Carolina" live from GrinderHouse in Crossville, TN in Sept. of 2023. More about us: www.linktr.ee/TheNewQuintet Instrumentation: Nicholas Williams: Vocals, Guitar Jade Watts: Upright Bass, Harmony Gordon Inman: Clarinet, Harmony Emma Dubose: Fiddle, Harmony Cody Ray: Guitar, Harmony Bio: Honoring the songs and styles that ha...
The NEW Quintet | "Mississippi River Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers) LIVE
zhlédnutí 249Před 11 měsíci
From June of 2023 at Songbirds Guitar Museum in Chattanooga, TN, performing our own arrangement of Jimmie Rodgers' classic "Mississippi River Blues", which can be found on the record "Folk Songs for Old Times' Sake". More about us: www.linktr.ee/TheNEWQuintet Instrumentation: Nicholas Williams: Vocals, Guitar Jade Watts: Upright Bass, Harmony Gordon Inman: Clarinet, Harmony Emma Dubose: Fiddle,...
The NEW Quintet | "Too Many Mirrors" LIVE at Songbirds
zhlédnutí 182Před 11 měsíci
Here's an original Quintet piece, written by Nicholas Edward Williams about the varying perspectives in which we view ourselves through mirrors, recorded live at Songbirds Guitar Museum on 6.30.23. Video by: Kelly Lacey of Make Beautiful www.linkedin.com/in/kellymlacy More about us: www.linktr.ee/TheNEWQuintet Instrumentation: Nicholas Williams: Vocals, Guitar Jade Watts: Upright Bass, Harmony ...
The New Quintet | "The Old Home Place" (The Dillards) LIVE
zhlédnutí 383Před rokem
From our debut at Songbirds Guitar Museum in Chattanooga, TN on 6.30.23, our rendition of "The Old Home Place", first recorded by The Dillards in 1963. Video: Kelly Lacey of Make Beautiful More about us: www.linktr.ee/TheNEWQuintet Instrumentation: Nicholas Williams: Vocals, Guitar Jade Watts: Upright Bass, Harmony Gordon Inman: Clarinet, Harmony Emma Dubose: Fiddle, Harmony Cody Ray: Guitar, H...
Nicholas Edward Williams w/ Golden Shoals | "Mole In The Ground" (Live on the Martha Bassett Show)
zhlédnutí 247Před rokem
Here's the old traditional tune "Wish I Was A Mole" or "Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground" that was preserved by an extremely important American roots musician named Bascom Lamar Lunsford of Asheville, NC who started the first folk festival in America, and had a massive hand in the popularization of mountain music and it's adoption into mainstream culture starting in the late 1920's. This one was...
The NEW Quintet | "Hang Me, Oh Hang Me" (Traditional)
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The NEW Quintet | "Hang Me, Oh Hang Me" (Traditional)
Golden Shoals w/ Nicholas Edward Williams | "Dry Bones" (Traditional)
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Golden Shoals w/ Nicholas Edward Williams | "Dry Bones" (Traditional)
Nicholas Edward Williams | "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Jazz Standard)
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Nicholas Edward Williams | "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Jazz Standard)
Nicholas Edward Williams Trio | "East Virginia Blues" (Traditional)
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Nicholas Edward Williams Trio | "East Virginia Blues" (Traditional)
The NEW Quintet | "Dink's Song - Fare Thee Well" (Traditional) LIVE
zhlédnutí 633Před rokem
The NEW Quintet | "Dink's Song - Fare Thee Well" (Traditional) LIVE
The NEW Quintet | "Mississippi John" (Live at Barking Legs Theater)
zhlédnutí 512Před rokem
The NEW Quintet | "Mississippi John" (Live at Barking Legs Theater)
Nicholas Edward Williams feat. Dom Flemons | "Railroad Bill" (Traditional) LIVE
zhlédnutí 113Před rokem
Nicholas Edward Williams feat. Dom Flemons | "Railroad Bill" (Traditional) LIVE
Nicholas Edward Williams | "Mississippi River Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers) LIVE
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Nicholas Edward Williams | "Mississippi River Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers) LIVE
The New Quintet | "Shake Sugaree" (Elizabeth Cotten) LIVE
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The New Quintet | "Shake Sugaree" (Elizabeth Cotten) LIVE
The NEW Quintet | "Green Rocky Road" (Van Winkle Sessions)
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The NEW Quintet | "Green Rocky Road" (Van Winkle Sessions)
Nicholas Edward Williams | "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" (Jimmie Cox/Blackwell)
zhlédnutí 328Před rokem
Nicholas Edward Williams | "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" (Jimmie Cox/Blackwell)
Nicholas Edward Williams | "Freight Train" // "Docs Guitar"
zhlédnutí 515Před rokem
Nicholas Edward Williams | "Freight Train" // "Docs Guitar"
Nicholas Edward Williams | Joe Turner Blues (Mississippi John Hurt)
zhlédnutí 361Před rokem
Nicholas Edward Williams | Joe Turner Blues (Mississippi John Hurt)
Nicholas Edward Williams feat. Dom Flemons | "Shake Sugaree" (Elizabeth Cotten)
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Nicholas Edward Williams feat. Dom Flemons | "Shake Sugaree" (Elizabeth Cotten)
Nicholas Edward Williams & Bill Newton | "Shake Sugaree" (Elizabeth Cotten)
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Nicholas Edward Williams & Bill Newton | "Shake Sugaree" (Elizabeth Cotten)
great stuff, You should cover the Wabash Cannonball ...Colter Wall did a pretty good job covering it
Such a chimera of vocal wizardry, Nicholas. Paul Simon and/or Bobby Dylan would be GOBSMACKED!
This is Jonathan Parker. I lived in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968. Wow, y'all. You are so damn good...and IN THE POCKET!!! That ain't nuthin' but love.
Nice performance.tx
wow you are clearly pros so maybe i shouldnt be surprised but this one of my favourite renditions of this amazing song. well done guys and thanks for sharing.
Nice playing. That Gibson has that thump that Gibson does best. Excellent voice too
Perfect start to a sunny beach day listening to this in my drive back from a surf. 👌
Jealous brother!
Awesome
❤
Who needs a drummer when you've got boots? 🥾🤠
Very nice, very well delivered. Love your choice of lyrics too. Thanks for sharing.
Memorable evening!
This is amazing. Should have a million likes in my opinion!
Lovely version!
Really nice! Love the inclusion of a non traditional instrument (clarinet) too. You all sound great, great rendition of the song.
Terrific! This needs a lot more exposure. Great job!🎉
One of my favorite older songs. You and Cody Ray look good.
You're so cool. :)
Not bad and i'm a fan of the Original Elizabeth Cotten version. Nice touch with harmonica
excellent reprise of Cotten's song.
Its so good to hear yall making lovely sounds! Love from Asheville <3
You are really great!
this is great mate!
I love yall so much! Thanks for giving me something to dance about today. :)
Anytime! :)
You are so incredible!! I had a blast playing with you at Folk Alliance this year <3
It was such a pleasure to meet and play with you at FAI! See you down the line for sure.
Very good! Really enjoyed your performance at Heartwood Soundstage as well a few days ago!! Thanks!
Nice!
Nice
What a stage! Sounds great
Yes thank you very much. I will take some Mississippi John Hurt anytime.
Great stuff. Love it.
My kind of music...Very nice! I enjoyed this performance. :-)
merci !
Classic
pretty cool... thanks for sharing... good luck to you
Nice!
Deeply thank you, Nicholas. You made me bring out my most precious childhood memories. Wishing you all success and worldwide assessment
Your version is the best I’ve seen by far! Well done my friend
Sounds great and cool vibe. I mess around w some home recording as well. Thanks for the inspiration!
🎶🙏
Very nice! Sad to see your song "Bomber Jacket" got removed though, that was a favorite of mine.
It'll come back at some point!
You're so easy to listen to! :)
Nice picking.
Very good
I met Pete Seeger as a grateful 14 year old and have treasured post cards from him. Great man. Thank you for carrying his music forward.
Excellent
more crossoever i want. add the best what cultures have to offer together.
Knew Joan from Plattsburgh going back to '71. Great friend, musician and singer. Mike Barber told me of her passing last year at a festival in Palatka, FL. Just wish I had taken lessons from her. A friend and I got to play with her at the Fleet Lounge in the Holiday Inn, at the original Filion's in town, and on base at the chapel. I bought her 1st husband's Guild 12 string F212NT. 1st time I saw her play was at Goober's in Plattsburgh. Always looked forward to playing with her and seeing her perform. R.I.P. Joan.
Knew Joan from Plattsburgh going back to '71. Great friend, musician and singer. Mike Barber told me of her passing last year at a festival in Palatka, FL. Just wish I had taken lessons from her. A friend and I got to play with her at the Fleet Lounge in the Holiday Inn, at the original Filion's in town, and on base at the chapel. I bought her 1st husband's Guild 12 string F212NT. 1st time I saw her play was at Goober's in Plattsburgh. Always looked forward to playing with her and seeing her perform. R.I.P. Joan.